Posts by Alistair Fairweather

Dear Mr Craven We are very different men, from very different generations, with very different views of the world. Nonetheless I respect both your opinion, and your contribution to the liberation struggle. But while I concede many of the points in...

So my thumbsuck earnings guesstimate on Facebook turned out to be bang on target. It did make around $500 million in 2010 according to documents released by those Wall Street sharks at Goldman Sachs. What I was completely wrong about was its net m...

Last week the US Federal Reserve, the world's most powerful and influential central bank, announced a second huge tranche of "quantitative easing" - now nicknamed "QE2". That in itself wasn't news, but the amount - $600 billion - has come as a big...

If you'd told me a week ago that we'd have fully functional on-demand TV for mobile phones this year, I would have been highly skeptical. If you'd told me the service would require no downloads or apps, that it would work on 90% of 3G handsets and...

When he said "Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity" Frank Lloyd Wright was talking about more than just eating, he was talking about dining as a cultural experience. And while he couldn’t have had an Indian restaurant at the tip o...

I wrote my last column for News24 this week. After nearly two years of calling it my home I'm sad to be leaving. I've written around 70 columns in that time, which equates to around 35,000 words, or one (very discontinuous) novella on technology. ...

A few weeks ago the marvellous Marianna Boguslavsky of Breadline Africa asked me to be part of a "geek fashion show". After some hesitation around the spectre of me on a catwalk in a swimsuit, I agreed. It's quite flattering to be included amongst...

I'm posting this as a proud member of the #SpeakZA movement. If you're a blogger who cares about freedom of speech, join us today and speak out against the ANCYL's bully-boy tactics. The words below were written by Sipho Hlongwane. I salute his co...

Last week I wrote about an appalling piece of sensationalist journalism by England's Daily "Hate" Mail. They claimed that they had created a fake profile of a 14-year-old girl and had been approached "within 90 seconds" by a middle aged man intent...